Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-18
DUBLIN GULCH.
The Classic But Sylvan Precinct
Again in the Thr0es Of Cvlv.;siOn
on Account of Evicti0ns.

Again in the Throes Of Cva-.:sion
on Account of Evictfons.
While the sons of Erin here and at home
in the "Green Isle OF the Ocean, the gem of
the sea-" as Moore POLITICALLY calls his
native land, are struggling to maintain
themselves. against the CALLING oppres-
sion of grasping landlords, and the editor
of United Ireland is stumping Canada
against the incarnation of landlcrdism in
the person of Governor General the Mar.
quis of Lansdowne in his stronghold, it will
hardly be credited that an Irish born citi-
zen of this Territory is following in the
wake Of the oppressors OF bis native land
and copying their worst features by calmly
contemplating the eviction. .of a number of
honest occupants OF ahieiings erected in
the srblime faith that this is free country
and that the
UNRIGHTEOCS DISPOsSESSORY LAWS
in the land of the free and the home of the
brave. Dublin Gulch is once more
in the throes OF a convulsion produced by
piece OF tyranny as Calling as that
practiced by the inhuman, blood-sucking
landlords of Ireland upon their helpless
victims. From motives of delicacy we for
bear to connect the name of the individual
in question with his acts, but the sad facts
remain blot Oh our civilization and a
stigma on the idea that this is free coun-
try. The District Court is the engine OF
oppression, and through an arbitrary judg-
ment lately rendered by it, an individual
was placed in possession of ground in Dub
lin Gulch to which, to be sure, he proved
his title. aud upon which many innocent
but happy families lived in blissful igno-
rance of rent or other ownership than
their own sweet will. Armed with the des-
potic power conferred upon him bv eject
ment obtained IN the e. of o. aforesaid,
the individual aforesaid had the
UNBLUsHING EFFRoNTERY
to desire the peaceful but happy families
to vacate their shieiings and surrender to
him these ahodes of bliss and virtue. and
put him in absolute ownership of more
domiciles than he could occupy in month
if he changed his residence every day. Nay,
he has gone further and stigmatized the o.
but b. t. aforesaid as "squatters." To say
that the honest Indignation of the afore-
said p. but h. I. has been aroused to the
highest pitch is to put it mildly. They are
virtuously indignant that a native OF their
own struggling country should be capable
of such cold-blooded cruelty as enforcing
the decree OF court which would send
them forth wanderers from their humble
homes, and their indignation has taken
form in action which speaks louder than
words. No sooner were they apprised of
the intention to disposses them than they
formed themselves into q company of de-
termined men, women and children, and
with such deadly weapons as cordwood,
shillelayhs and Rocky Mountain bats:
AWAITED THE APPROACH
of the ruthless invader with stern deter
mination on their blanched cheeks stand
ing out in bold relief. The enemy of their
hearths and homes approached in a solid
phalanx OF one, when, coming on an open
space where he could in one brief glance
take in the situation, he, with an inspira-
tion truly heroic, aid an instinct little
short of marvellous, executed a strategic
movement in echelon to the rear which
will live in history with the Retreat from
Moscow and the Battle OF Vinegar Hill.
By this Fabian policy he no doubt saved
himself from an overwhelming disaster and
lived to fight another day. The victors on
the field lost no time in convening into
patriotic body as the Dublin Gulch Land
Leauge, which name will 60
LAUNDERING DOWN THE AGES
along with the Vehm Gerichte of the Middle
Ages and the Three Tailors OF Tooley
Street. Resolutions we're unanimously
passed to boycott the invader of their
hearths and homes, and calling upon
their fellow-sufferers in Ireland for their
moral assistance as there would be no use
to ask them for pecuniary help. The
routed landlord has retired to his rack
renting castle and is understood to be in
communication with the Governor of the
Territory with the expectation of calling
out militia to aid him in regaining posses
sion of his ancestral acres.